The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 19, 1953, Page 2

Page 2 Y NEW YORK #—An appeal to 2 young ¢hemist's conscience after hours of questioning, a prosecutor says, t-ought bis confession of | killing his parents with poisoned) champagne cocktails. Asst. Dist, Atty. George Tilzer| gave details fate yesieraay of the qQuizzing of 20-year-old Harlow Fra- “Poison Cocktail” Slayings - ‘Cop Indicted ‘ inp Saturday, December 19, 1953; Chicago _Temperaturey At 7:30 A.M., EST lAtianta irmingham ton Bos: Butfalo ‘ieston iCorpus Christi In Probe For KANSAS CITY #—One of the! } *t } Denver }Detroit |El Paso Ft. Worth _ Galveston __ \Jacksonville Kansas City WEST Key West Airport Los Angeles den in the deaths four months ago/°fficers who arrested kidnaper Louisville of his parents, William and Shirley Carl Austin Hall has been indicted Meridian (Continued From Page One) f ADMIRAL TOWNER /TREVOR IS REELECTED (Continued trom Page One Scheel students, the Sadie Haw- kins Day Dance and the Thanks- giving Day buffet and dance as | Program highlights of the month. The club director commented on the report to the effect that the program fer November was a- mong the best during the past year and a half. Miss Hudson paid tribute te the fine spirit in which a number of the service- men as well as GSO members had volunteered te assist with | Programming. | the Navy and the | Attending the meeting, in addi- tion to Miss Hudson and Messrs. \Trevor, Miller, Pinder and Evans,, She was a born in Key | RESCUED MEN ARE NFA (Contipuea From Page Une) | | suffering only minor injuries, were FLORIDA LEE WHALTON identified a+ | Florida Lee Whaltonm, 90, passed) M. Sgt. G. L. Easterbrook, 33, ‘away this morning at 7:25 a.m. at engineer, Wherry Housing Project, the residence, 914 Duval St., after) Utah. a short illness. T. Sgt. W. E. Dracup, 28, scan- Private funeral services ere be ner, Wherry Housing. held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock . . 81. sconnee, in the Chapel of the Loper Fuser.) > — — . . al Home. The Rev. Michael Cron-|Clearfield, Utah, : ‘in, S. J., will officiate at the ser-| S$. Sgt. V. A. Clegg, 23, radio vices. Burial will be in family plot| operator, Kansas City, Mo. in the Catholic Cemetery. J. L. Carter, Navy enlisted mas “hitchhiking” aboard the wry a West} I Nepal. Utah, on leave from The plane was returning from @ Survivors are a niece, Mrs. Nina|Kan declared “excut |Rev. Ralph W. Rogers, Ralph Spal on a charge of perjury by a fed-| Miami ‘ding, and Harold Laubscher, ma- Minneapolis — Young Fraden and companion, |¢r#! grand jury probing the miss- coro his Dennis Wepman, 22, were indicted |iné Greenlease ransom money. |New Orleans earlier in the day on a charge of The indictment was returned |New York first degree murder—a count car-\Jate yesterday against Elmer Dol-| Norfolk rying o mandatory sentence of|2%, 25, shortly after he had ap.|Oklahoma City . death in New York State {peared before the grand jury. ittsbur Fraden. Mat. 2.8 4:06 Night 6:12 & 8:18 AIR CONDITIONED Sun. and Mon. ean eRe iy |with other business—the presen- 24 tation of safe driving awards to) ~ 41\Navy Station workers. ——- 15) Neblett stepped beck four or ~ C, USNR, Naval Base in, and Lt. Clem Pearson, I 1740 and was able to use it and] e 3 ties Roanoke ‘The two youths reportedly have| arrested Hall in St. Louis Oct. 6. | |. Dolan was suspended by the St. | | Louis police board Dec. 10 pending | |@ hearing on charges growing out |) of the handling of the arrest. Shoulders resigned from the po- lice force in October, charging the vestigation into the arrest was assassinating and destroying” his character. Hall and Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady were executed yesterday for the kidnaping and slaying of 6- year-old Bobby Greenlease, the son of a wealthy Kansas City auto- mobile dealer. Hall contended to the end that | two suitcases containing $600,000 ransom money were not taken to a | police station with him after his | arrest. Later $303,720 of the ran- som money was missing. | Dolan said both suitcases were taken to the station with Hall. The Weatherman Says Key West and vicinity: Continued | fair weather with mostly sunny) skies and slowly rising tempera-| tures. Low tonight about 62 de-} Brees, high Sunday 74 degrees. | Northeast to easterly winds, gen- tle to moderate locally but moder- admitted spiking champaigne with cyanide and tricking the elder Fradens into toasting their only| child with the deadly potion last| Aug. 19, The deaths had been con-| sidered double suicides or murder | and suicide. Wepman, a free lance writer, ad- waltted « part in the effair after| the case cracked open Wednesday. However, Fraden did not make a statement until Thursday night. | Soth are 6 mental ex-| aminations at Bellevue Hospital. | Yesterday Tilzer gave this state-| ment on the means by which Fra-| den’s purported confession was ex- tracted: “We appealed to his conscience. | We told him, ‘You have to live with yourself. The world is entitled to know whetber you did it for gain or revenge.’ At the word gain, Fraden quickly answered, ‘No, no, no,’ he quickly answered. 1 asked | him, ‘Did you hate your mother?’ | and’ he replied, ‘Yes, T hated! her.” | Tilzer added that Fraden told| him his mother, a 46-year-old) school teacher, had threatened to! put him in a mental institution. | “Now she caraot put me away and he (his father) ha: id peace,” Fraden was quoted 'y- ing. The elder Fraden was a 50- year-old physicien, Wepman was said to have claimed that he was talked into! the crime with expectations of | sharing big money but only got|ate to occasionally fresh off shore army is formed, delivery of mili- $120. Wepman said the motive was! money with Fraden expecting an| inheritance, first estimated at Dolan and Lt. Louis Shoulders thur Sunday. State of. Florida: Considerable warmer on lower east coast and \children from seven to nine o'clock jevening of December 23. Over St. Louis San Antonio _____. San Francisco - Seattle _ Tallahassee NI i cnatipinenitecenantsos Das Waeehinghtn 2. 19 CHRISTMAS TREE (Continued from Page One) school and schoo! age children on th eveing of December 22 from six to eight o’clock for the white \children: and party for the clolored - 55 three hundred children are expect- ed to attend the parties. All arrangements have been per- fected and the usual pleasure of; having the children meet Santa and receive their gifts is antici- pated. GOP PROGRAM FOR ’54 (Continued From Page One) can be made to consider the views of the British and others.” Dulles reportedly told the con- | five paces, visibly shaken by the | admiral’s words. cREFEEFE F ferees yestrday that his warning M to European nations to ratify the European Defense Community treaty if they expect further Amer- ican aid had been overempha- sized. Dulles Stands Pat But lawmakers said he stuck to the main theme of his speech to the North Atlantic Treaty Organi-| zation that unless a European) tary items will have to be slowed under orders of Congress. : In a formal statement mention- $150,000 but later scaled down to|slowly rising temperatures else-|ing the topics discussed at yester- about $26,000. Fraden ran through| Where thru Sunday. Low tonight | day 8 conference, Eisenhower said an estimated $50,000 before his ranging from 30-35 in extreme that “because of reductions in ex- arrest, north to 60 on lower east. cdast,|Penditures already made and pres- However, Bronx authorities ‘said |Fair except for increasing cloudi-|¢ntly planned, it was agreed that Fraden, denying money was a mo- ness Sunday in Tallahassee area|the way was cleared S| tive, insisted he killed his parent id lower east coast. \tax reductions in pefsofal income note asking they be delivered to the 22 Americans in neutral eus- tody. A spokesman for Thimayya indi- cated the “come home’’s letter would have to be approved by the five-nation NNRC Monday, just two days before expiration of the’ 90-day period for trying to woo There appeared to be little chance that face-to-face ews with the balky ree na at} be arranged before the deadline, The letter actually is a ment Allied explainers plani to ii , Form Miss Jane Hudson, Program di- rector, reperted the Marine Corps Anniversary celebration, the Var- Triumph Coffee Mill home unrepatriated war prisoners. |. “because as long as he could re-| Marine Forecast Jacksonville taxes and excess profits taxes.” juse during interviews with the call, and before he knew anything |thru Florida Straits and East Gulf Without mentioning the results, prisoners, | at ALL GROCERS CIFELLI'S $0%<..0: Factory Methods Used— All Work Guaranteed Marine Radios & Asst. Equipment’ FOR PROMPT AND RELIABLE ‘SERVICE — SEE... 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Fraden and Wepman' have denied being homosexuals. They lived together for many Key West, Fla., Dec. 19, 1953 | energy.” be months and were evicted from one apartment because of alleged wild all-male parties. A break in the case came early in the week after Wepman un- burdened his troubled conscience to an unidentified girl friend who| later went to police. APPEAL FOR PEACE WASHINGTON Wt — President Eisenhower will make an appeal for world peace in a television and| radio talk to the nation Christmas| Eve. The President, probably with | coming partly cloudy Sunday. | Observations. Taken At City Office at 8 A.M., EST Highest yesterday Lowest last night Mean Normal irlke NaeE BE PRECIPITATION Total last 24 hours .__ 0.00 Total this month 37 Deficiency this month _. 54 Total this year 46.23 Excess this year TAT Relative Humidity, 7 A.M. 89% — 61) aneciemnee SF fe emeccee SY} ins. ins. ins, ins.| ins.| 72\ered the possible expansion of old “the prospects ofpeacetime, civil-| ian development of uses.of atomic Without disclosing .any details, Eisenhower said that’Secretary of Agriculture Benson has “made| certain proposals for an agricul- tural program.” Eisenhower said in his statement that yesterday’s conferences cov- age and survivors’ insurance un- der the social security program, extension of health facilities and “improved plans for the physically handicapped.” SEVENTH YEAR OF (Continued From Page One? Barometer (Sea Level), 7:00 A.m,|188 the Vietminh, led by Moscow. Mrs. Eisenhower at his side, will! Speak for about three minutes from | the White House at about 4:30 P. m. (EST) next Thursday. Then he and the First Lady will go to the White House south lawn|M and take part in the traditio lighting of the nation’s Christm ‘tree, DRIVERLESS CAR OKLAHONA CITY wm — S. F Boultinghouse gaped, then called} police when a car turned into his| driveway and stopped. | There was no driver. | Investigating officers found Ar-| thur Lee Mmurphy, 43, about 140} . feet away. He claimed he ace’ deatally had fallen out of the car,| He said the auto continued down! the street, banged into a curb, turned into the Boultinghouse driveway, and came to a perfect trained Ho Chi Minh. j | On this anniversary day, rebel forces occupy most of Viet Nam, -jone of the three French -|Indochinese states whic! \elude Laos Chinese-trained and equipped ar- my is stronger than ever. | The French are hoping that with} reinforcements from overseas and| the rapidly expanding Vietnamese army they can drive deep into the heart of rebel-held areas in the new year and deliver the finishing blows by the end of 1955. Sandy 4on, | Channe! Fas American aid, which has been} averaging a half billion dollars in 30.29 ins.—1026.1 mbs. * Sunset loonrise Moonset (Naval Base) High Tide Low Tide 10:22 a.m. 3:46 a.m. 9:30 p.m. 2:34 p.m. Seca Chica - | classed Both pro-Communist and anti- Communist prisoners in neutral itody made preparations for cel- | ebrating Christmas in their barbed vire compounds, The Reds delivered a truckload of athletic equipment to the pro-| Communist north camp, along with decorations and colored tissue pa- per. Holiday food also has been supplied for the Americans, one Briton and 327 South Koreans in the camp. Some 22,000 Chinese and North Koreans in the anti-Red south camp will get Christmas delicacies from the U.N, Command said it would distribute gifts from outside organizations, including several | Planeloads of food from Formosa, } After Wednesday prisoners who | have not come home will be listed as absent without leave. A month later th automatically will be! deserters. | “Now is the time to seriously | consider that there is nothing more | humiliating than to discover that! one has been a fool, used for some- one’s questionable age and then later tossed aside like an old shoe,” the letter declares. “Be certain in your mind that you are not just grist for the) Propaganda mill.” i - . A reasonable decision re- | quires a thoughtful evaluation of] family ties. If these mean anythig | north om ne crn +14 @|war materials annually, is being at all, it should be remembered that these, like cake, cannot be For The Best Italian Food STEAKS ,. . CHOPS CHICKEN . . . B’B-Q RIBS SHRIMP . . . LOBSTER “Eat With Candlelight” PARKING FOR PATRONS x © {PN 22 PIZZA — To Take Out PHONE 2.9158 Sunday Through Tuesday ‘THE BIG HEAT “THERE ARE SOME GUYS —)—Mirus sign: Corrections | boosted by another 385 million dol-| be lars. With that, the United States had and eaten too. You cannot | will be paying about 60 per cent/|forsake family ties and have them | of the war's cost. | too.” j As the conflict goes into its) The U.N. Command called. the KILLING’S TOO GOOD FOR «And he’s one of them. That’s why T'm going to work him over the he worked over those four girls through he'll wish And when I get he were just as dead as they are!” added. ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA Reference Station: Key West Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturda eighth year Sunday, a backward letter a “statement “ ne | Time of Heig! lance shows: jlisting seven suggestions to the Station~. Tee bon ht fe French and Indochinese American captives. — F Bahie Honds |governments have already spent) The seven suggestions, briefly: (bridge) —.-ch 10m 9.9.¢¢. 8TOund 10 billion dollars to fight it. 1. A free choice must be be- No Name Key |. Two million Vietnamese have tween “alternatives. feast end) —+2h 20m been uprooted from their homes 2. A free choice requires correct and forced to flee into French- gence ma > controled zones. . Remember your families. ODD BEHAVIOR The Vietminh—by French esti: 4. Make sure your decision is SALEM, N. H. wW—Police would|mates—have had 240,000 killed,|free of “coercion and duress.” | like to find the thief who broke|420,000 wounded and 238,000 cap-| 5. Be wary of “promises of fu- into Mrs. George H. Brear’s home tured. ture rewards. ..” , last night. They want to test his French Union losses have been 6. You can serve mankind best sanity. estimated at 48,000 French and|among your own people. The burglar unwrapped 20 Christ-' Vietnamese killed, $0,000 wounded| 7. You must be fully aware of | mas gifts but took only a camera and 12,000 missing. the techniques of education, per- | and tie and all the wrappings. He| Rumors persist there might be|suasion and indoctrination which | stole three jars of candy, but left|a Korean-type truce to end the|may have been employed in bring- two boxes of chocolates. shooting here. Rebel leader Ho Chi/ing you to your decision. ! He took two boxes of fishing) Minh recently said he is ready to es tackle, but left two fishing reels talk peace if the French ask for it.. Sinee 1900, the United States has jbehind. He picked up a .22 calibre. But the French are not asking produced about 129 million motor revolver, but turned down a hunt- for it and have said they would vehicles. ing rifle. do nothing without the assent of And when he had finished—he the Vietnamese government which swept #e floor the rebel leader has ignored. stop. es) Vic Vet says OVER 1,800,090 PIECES OF MAIL (CAME TO VA INA RECENT MONTH PROPER IOENTIFI- CATION, CAUSING DELAYS IN REPLYING «--~- FOR FASTER 4:00 - 9:00 P.M. 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